Blackfoot Warrior Photo

TDM · Apr 11, 2024

I don’t know the date of this photo, but it’s the best one I’ve come across that shows their affinity for Trade Gun dragon side plates. Certainly would be a neat necklace to have.

sussexmuzllodr · Apr 11, 2024

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JRBCo. · Apr 11, 2024

TDM said:
I don’t know the date of this photo, but it’s the best one I’ve come across that shows their affinity for Trade Gun dragon side plates. Certainly would be a neat necklace to have.

What a cool photo. Thanks

Polecat_Tom · Apr 11, 2024

TDM, that is a great photo. Flavor Flav has nothing on him.

William Sublette · Apr 11, 2024

That's a thumbnail on YouTube.

Looks like a clay trade pipe too.

The more you learn about the blackfeet, the more you realize what a bunch of bad asses they were.

The lakota got most of the press, but the blackfeet were just as tough, if not more so.

William Sublette · Apr 11, 2024

How many of youse have stopped at fishing bridge in jellystone np?

Osborne Russels' journal of a trapper tells about being jumped there by the blackfeet.

After being stuck with arrows they were able to make to ft. Hall and heal up....by the hair of their chinny chin chin.

Polecat_Tom · Apr 11, 2024

William Sublette said:
Osborne Russels' journal of a trapper tells about being jumped there by the blackfeet.

I have read that, they were an impressive bunch.

Brazos John · Apr 11, 2024

Do you think he bought the side plates?
Or did he kill the rifle owners and take them?

TDM · Apr 11, 2024

Brazos John said:
Do you think he bought the side plates?
Or did he kill the rifle owners and take them?

No telling!

PathfinderNC · Apr 11, 2024

Looks like he’s smoking’ a joint too

azmntman · Apr 11, 2024

Ya, I see another post said a pipe but both the object and the expression (0r not lol) on his face look like it was some pretty good stuff.

azmntman · Apr 11, 2024

I googled Lacota war chants once and its pretty Erie, no clue about how he got the side plates but them chants are not to be listened to before bedtime!

TDM · Apr 11, 2024

PathfinderNC said:
Looks like he’s smoking’ a joint too

azmntman said:
Ya, I see another post said a pipe but both the object and the expression (0r not lol) on his face look like it was some pretty good stuff.

Thought the same thing till I zoomed in. It's a clay pipe.

PathfinderNC · Apr 11, 2024

TDM said:
Thought the same thing till I zoomed in. It's a clay pipe.

Yes I see it’s a pipe also. Must be doing payote

All jesting aside that’s a cool display of side plates. But seriously, he really needed someone else to do his hair .

TDM · Apr 11, 2024

PathfinderNC said:
Yes I see it also. Must be payote

That's a definite possibility.

JEBMs · Apr 11, 2024

Is that Rob’s great great grandfather?

2 shots · Apr 11, 2024

id like to find that :ghostly:

Cayman like · Apr 11, 2024

2 shots said:
id like to find that

I've seen that photo before and a later one taken in the 20th century of a old Blackfoot with the same type necklace. Maybe the same guy as an old man.

Trooper · Apr 12, 2024

azmntman said:
I googled Lacota war chants once and its pretty Erie, no clue about how he got the side plates but them chants are not to be listened to before bedtime!

I have Manitoba Swampy Cree in my heritage and also googled chants from split lake, Manitoba where my ancestors come from. They are very erie for sure. I'm proud to be Metis.

XVIIc Wheelock · Apr 12, 2024

Common with photographers back in day to provide the necessary accruements to properly set up the subject..and noting from above about seeing the same necklace on another Indian makes me believe both the pipe and necklace were props.

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